Findings

Due Diligence and Duty of Care

Organizations have a duty to provide a safe and secure environment to their staff, clients, and stakeholders. Demonstrating due diligence through organizational resilience is therefore a key governance responsibility. As stated in ASIS SPC.1-2009, Organizational Resilience Standard:

Today’s threats require the creation of an on-going, dynamic, and interactive process that serves to assure the continuation of an organization’s core activities before, during, and – most importantly – after a major crisis event.

P 18. A.0 Introduction

Neglecting to demonstrate due diligence may result in litigation and have an impact on life safety, property, finance, insurance, and reputation.

The Challenging Risk research and design teams developed a theoretical model that identified the common problems facing organizations as well as the elements that are essential for the creation of a comprehensive emergency management and business continuity software system.